Gaming against eachother

[wotevajjjj]

Hi,

Me and friend were playing some modern warfare earlier today and becasue his little mac book "pro" started making an awful lot of noise, i asked what his temp's were.

85°c CPU didn't sound very good so I told him better not to game any longer.

My pc however is more than powerful enough to run COD4 multiple times on maxed out settings. I know there is software out there to use your pc's power on another device, but is there anything out there that allows me to play on my own pc, and have him use my pc but play on his mac. Also it has to allow us getting into LAN games, it would be pretty useless otherwise.

Thanks in advance.

 

[dugdiamond]

ummm - no!

because even though you would be using your PC as a server, his macbook would still have to render...etc...

 

[wotevajjjj]

I know, but i was talking about some software that would make my pc render both screens, pocket cloud for my android does that but only shows 1 screen

 

[Ya93sin]

He is going to have a lot of lag, as he is going to have 2x the lag (time to get images from you+time to get his input back to your PC), either way I don't think you are going to be able to do it properly.

Maybe his laptop needs some spring cleaning?

 

[wotevajjjj]

I doubt it., its brand new, were just going to run it on the lowest settings with vsync on and try to stay below 70.. might use some rubberbands and fans ive got laying around

 

[Ya93sin]

Maybe he could just install Windows on it and dual boot...

 

[wotevajjjj]

Maybe he could just install Windows on it and dual boot...

how will that solve temperatures ?

 

[Ya93sin]

Sometimes the game is better optimised for a different OS. One of my friends plays Killing Floor, temps are higher when he boots into hackintosh than when he boots into windows (and then plays game).

 

[ruthless_villain]

its not a custom build so it has a big ass warranty on it so back up your data and let it do what it wants it aint your or his problem

 

[dugdiamond]

okay... listen up!

any game, other than time-sensitive ones', will work (ie: RTS; RPG; MMO), but FPS will not....

why?

• the laptop, has to draw the image created by your PC..... you PC has to do the game twice (entirely).
  
• it then has to send the imagery via ethernet to the the laptop, and also send it your data from your POV...
  
• the laptop then has to say "okay i have that image and your data [computing]... the bullets/AI/player has changed. here is the new data", and send this back up the wire to your PC (extreme lag!!!)
  

so... the two computers in question will be working over twice as hard

also the game will only play at:

(slowest CPU | GPU speed / lowest fps) / n(v > 0.5)​

where: n is bandwidth, and v is the parsing lag.

not worth it, for FPS's

 

[driver321]

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[KaraMurat]

So you mean something like onlive? It's entirely possible however it depends on whether your computer can handle it and if your upload is high enough to stream and receive information. You may think your pc is more than capable however it would be working around twice as harder and your bandwidth will be clogged up with uploading (also not reccommended if you have an upload/download limit).

Stream My Game

I found a website which could allow you to do what you want, however I'm not sure how you could sort out something on the website with your friend. Keep in mind as you are going to be streaming the game to his laptop the quality will be determined by your upload speed.

 

[NoHydro]

Heres the thing. Macs run hot. I have two. the CPUs hit 90+ degrees when encoding video with handbrake. generally, this is fine. As long as it isn't shutting off by itself there is absolutely nothing to worry about.